“They stole the tablets at the first business they broke into. The tablets had GPS, and that led us to them,” said Lubbock police spokesman Sgt. Jonathan Stewart.

Stewart said investigators working through bank bags and stolen items in the men’s possession when they were arrested near the Pinkie’s liquor store on U.S. 87, connected them to five business burglaries Sunday. The investigation is continuing.

Quinton Quontrail Brown, 27, Kendrick Raynard Johnson, 28, and Kendrick D. Lawton, 28 were booked into Lubbock County Detention Center on Sunday. Each was charged with five counts of burglary of a building, one count of third-degree organized crime and one count of fleeing on foot.

The burglary charges are state jail felonies. The organized crime charge is a third-degree felony, and fleeing on foot is a misdemeanor.

Stewart said the burglary string started with an alarm report at 7:04 a.m. Sunday from a business in the 5800 block of 50th Street.

He said the men were arrested after a foot chase after they’d broken into the liquor store on the city’s far southeast side.

Bail had not yet been set.

A check of Dallas County court records showed that each of the three has prior criminal convictions.

According to court files, Brown has been charged with burglary of a building eight times between 2005 and 2011, receiving probation under plea agreements. He has also pleaded guilty to charges of theft of a firearm, and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Johnson has prior plea agreements for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and theft.

Lawton’s charges in Dallas include evading arrest and interfering with a public servant.